https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=358308 Criminal proceedings may be quashed where a complaint arising from a contractual payment dispute is essentially civil in nature and criminal process is used in the background of parallel proceedings under the Negotiable Instruments Act. The Court also accepted that, where the alleged transaction is attributable to a company and the company is the real beneficiary but is not arrayed as an accused, proceedings against its representatives cannot ordinarily continue absent specific personal culpability. Applying these principles, the complaint against the petitioners was set aside as an abuse of process. en-us Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 08:23:07 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=358308 Criminal proceedings may be quashed where a complaint arising from a contractual payment dispute is essentially civil in nature and criminal process is used in the background of parallel proceedings under the Negotiable Instruments Act. The Court also accepted that, where the alleged transaction is attributable to a company and the company is the real beneficiary but is not arrayed as an accused, proceedings against its representatives cannot ordinarily continue absent specific personal culpability. Applying these principles, the complaint against the petitioners was set aside as an abuse of process. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=358308